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UX Videos
This video post kicks off our new video channel, moderated by Tomer Sharon.
Tomer Sharon is a UX researcher at Google and author of the book It’s our research. In this video, Tomer introduces himself and the topics which will be covered in this channel.
We are very excited to feature this new category on our blog. Our heartfelt thanks to Tomer for sharing his UX insights with the Usabilla community.
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Design
Parallax scrolling. A design technique that has become increasingly popular lately — and not without reason. We’ve been talking a lot about how the web has changed and how our expectations towards a website have risen. The web user of today wants to get entertained and involved. We are more than willing to engage with a website, if we are invited to do so anyway. With parallax scrolling you can do a bunch of great things to invite your visitors to engage with your site.
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Design
Stories play a central role in any culture. Their original purpose is to entertain, educate, and to teach us moral values. Back in the days when there was no mass media, stories were passed on from person to person, from generation to generation. Later, they were written down, duplicated, and easily accessible to the masses. With every new medium people kept finding new and more advanced ways to preserve and share their stories.
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Case Studies
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Onur Alp Soner, Developer at Countly
Case Studies
Your homepage is an important portal for potential customers. It is therefore crucial this portal is not only friendly and inviting, but at the same time clear and engaging. You need to quickly communicate the main benefits of your product and give people a reason to engage with your site.
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Design
Most websites out there were designed with three central goals in mind: (1) to attract a certain group of people, (2) to inform them about a certain product or service, and (3) to convince them to take a certain action. The way you present your business idea on your website is essential for the success of all of these three goals.
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Links
The end of the month is approaching and once more we have gathered our most favorite articles on UX for you. So if you are still looking for some good reading material for the weekend, we’ve got you covered.
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Design
The user experience of a website has gained quite some importance in the last couple of years. A website is expected to be functional, reliable, and efficient nowadays. Besides these basics, it also needs to be engaging and fun. In order to stand out from your competitors and to make a lasting impression, you need to offer your visitors an experience worth remembering. You need to make sure they actually enjoy your website.
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Design
Responsive web design is quite a new approach to handling your website on different devices. While your content stays the same, the layout changes according to the screen resolution. Responsive design allows you to create a unique user experience on different platforms and at the same time keep maintenance efforts at a minimum.
There have been numerous articles lately that cover this topic. Some help us understand the anatomy of responsive websites with guidelines and tutorials, others shed light on the role of media queries, and yet others offer inspiring collections of responsive designs.
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Theory
Failure is unacceptable. Or so it seems in our success driven society. A meritocracy that has taught us to see and judge each other by our achievements. It has become a central aspect of our lives to be successful, or at least not to fail in what we do. But why is that? Is failure really something evil that we need to avoid by all means?
Personally, I think there is more to failure than the obvious. Failure also bears a lot of potential and chances for improvements and even greater success. If we can stop to project failure on to ourselves, and instead see failure in our actions and decisions, maybe we can learn to embrace failure as something good.
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